05/22/2025

FDA to Limit Access to COVID Vaccine Shots

The shots will only be available to those over 65 or with high-risk conditions

In a major policy change, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a plan to limit access to future COVID-19 shots only to people over 65 years old or those with an underlying health condition.

This change would apply to any future updated versions of the vaccine, a spokesperson at the department of Health and Human Services told ABC News. For the past several years, COVID shots have been updated ahead of the winter respiratory virus season to better match the evolving virus.

But FDA Commissioner Dr. Martin Makary and FDA vaccine head Dr. Vinay Prasad claimed this week that annual booster shots are not "worth the risk" for otherwise healthy people. The FDA plans to impose these restrictions on future shots for younger, healthy people, unless vaccine makers are willing to pay for newer and and lengthy placebo-controlled trials.

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